I have last general question.
To the period ending August 5, 2021, NATO allies, including Canada, evacuated over 70,000 people from Hamid Karzai International Airport. The U.K. alone evacuated over 11,000 people. We evacuated some 3,700 people, disproportionately less than NATO partners and allies. The U.K. is roughly double our size. They evacuated almost four times or three and a half times what we evacuated. The U.S. is 10 times our size, and they certainly evacuated a lot of people in the weeks and months leading to the end of August.
Why was our response slower than that of our NATO allies and partners?